Rafter S
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my grand dad always had Jerseys long ago when more attention was paid to percentage of fat. He like the jerseys better than a holstein and said holstiens gave water not milk. We always had a stainless steel pitcher of raw milk in the refrigerator and the top would all be cream. I used to get in trouble if I'd get up early and skim it off the top before my grandmother came down to the kitchen
There's a dairy near me that still runs all Jerseys. As far as I know it's the last dairy in Grimes county, and it used to have so many it was know as "The Land of Milk and Honey" (it's also home to some of the more prominent beekeeping operations in the country). It seems like just about every family that had 100 acres switched from farming cotton or corn to dairy back in the '50s and '60's. Now it's either beef cattle, or the land was broken up into smaller tracts.